Return of the Jedi - Is He Still Darth Sidious?

"There's only one way to wrap up the Skywalker saga and that's to bring back the ultimate baddie, right?" he said. "I just hope that the next movie doesn't make him irrelevant." The idea of Palpatine returning is based on concept artworks from Ralph McCory when Return of the Jedi was known as Revenge of the Jedi. In the original concept, Luke and Vader stand before the Emperor's throne in this cave which takes place on some sort of desolate planet.